Health & Safety Advisor

We are currently looking for a Health and Safety Advisor to join our team in our Leeds, Ipswich, Manchester or London office.  This role can be worked flexibly with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

Working as part of Sweco's internal H&S team, you'll play a critical role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of our employees. By implementing effective safety policies and procedures, delivering advice and expertise, proactively promoting the use, understanding and adherence to Sweco's H&S Management System and reinforcing a positive culture of continual improvement in regard to health and safety. 

What does the role involve?     

• Proactively promoting a positive H&S culture, best practice and compliance to policies and procedures, working with others to increase H&S awareness across all areas of the business in line with company and legislative requirements. 
• Working with the H&S Manager and team to deliver the H&S elements of the strategic plan and provide support on all H&S matters. 
• Providing support to office H&S Representatives to ensure legal compliance across all Sweco offices in the UK/Ireland.  
• Providing advice and information to colleagues on H&S matters such as accident and incident investigation, CDM, project related requirements, DSE assessments, legal compliance, training needs and safety procedures. 
• Supporting the H&S Manager with internal and external H&S audits, e.g. providing and producing documentation, audit prep, attendance in audits, completing audits and closing out actions. 
• Conducting office/site audits and inspections, including monitoring and advising employees on safe working practices. 
• Producing and monitoring of accurate reports/statistics to the management team on H&S performance.
• Completing accident/incident/near-miss investigations and assisting with solutions to eliminate, reduce risk or reoccurrence.
• Presenting at Sweco induction and internal events as required.

What do you need to be successful in this role:

• You’ll have at least 2 years of relevant H&S experience working in the UK, preferably in the construction/civil engineering industry.  This will include demonstrable experience of operational delivery of H&S.
• You’ll have obtained a NEBOSH diploma or equivalent to a level 5/6 qualification in H&S (or be working towards it). 
• You’ll have Tech IOSH status as a minimum and be working towards Grad/Chartered membership.
• You’ll have strong technical knowledge across relevant HSE legislation, compliance and regulations (including CDM Regulations and ISO 45001).
• You’ll have a clean driving license and be willing to travel to sites and offices within the UK and Ireland when required.
• You’ll have strong written and verbal communication skills, recognising your own impact on others and having the ability to adapt to suit your audience. 
• You’ll be able to work collaboratively with others to form strong positive working relationships with colleagues, clients, and contractors. 
• You’ll have the ability to work on your own initiative, organising and prioritising your workload to ensure timescales are met.
• You’ll have good problem solving/contingency planning skills with the ability to find quick, innovative and practical solutions.
• You’ll be passionate about health, safety and the environment and understand the importance of projecting a professional image to clients and colleagues at all times.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll experience an inclusive, friendly and flexible working environment where colleagues are encouraged to grow and develop.  A meaningful job where you’ll help to transform society by being a trusted consultant to our clients. 

If you believe you have the skill set required, are keen to join a business with genuine opportunities for career progression, then we’d love to hear from you.

Let’s transform society together at Sweco!

About Us

Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.

Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.

We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.

Sweco is committed to enabling all its colleagues to achieve a great balance between work and their other priorities, such as caring responsibilities, leisure activities, further learning or other interests. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs. 

Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.

Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity.  We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.

We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs.  Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.

Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in December 2023 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2024 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.